Introduction to Temporal#

Temporal is a durable execution engine. You write workflows as ordinary code – if/else, loops, function calls – and Temporal guarantees that code runs to completion even when processes crash, machines fail, or deployments happen mid-execution. It eliminates the need to build retry logic, state machines, and recovery mechanisms by hand.

This article introduces the core concepts, architecture, and use cases. It is the first in a series that takes you from zero to running production workflows on Kubernetes.